(04/08/2021- Excerpt from Institution Website) 

The Centre for Development Studies (CDS)  is presently celebrating its Fiftieth Foundation Year. It was was 19 October 1970 that the CDS was established as an autonomous social science research institute. 

The main activities of the Centre are research, teaching and training. Right from the beginning, a strong all-India character in terms of both faculty and student composition was seen, as well as being very much internationalized, attracting a large number of distinguished academic visitors from abroad. Presently CDS has tie-ups with eleven international institutions, nine national institutions and three institutions at the state level.

Over the past decades, CDS has diversified its research into a large number of areas. Some of the topics that received significant attention in the 1970s and 1980s are no longer in vogue, while new areas of research concern have emerged in the field of development studies. It is also worth mentioning that the Centre received prestigious endowment funds from different government agencies to set up dedicated research units in recent years to focus on specific areas like local government, migration and plantation development. Needless to mention, CDS has been attracting sponsored project research funding from several national and international organisations for researching various dimensions of development.